Well, I have been regretting the day that I promised the group that I
would send a copy of the Deansboro auction prices when they were
available!  Unfortunately for me, I'm like Horton the Elephant ("I
meant what I said and I said what I meant, an elephant's faithful,
100%).  After several hours of work scanning in the pages, putting the
OCR to work reducing the pages to text and then doing a lot of editing
to put in the prices and correcting some of the OCR errors, it's ready.
I just hope some of the people can really use the information or my
efforts will have been for nothing.  I have attached three copies of
the same document.  The .doc version is in Microsoft Word from Office
97, the .rtf is in rich text format which retains the tabs and so on so
that little or no information from the word file is lost and the .txt
is a plain old text file which is very difficult to read because it
lacks any and all formatting.  I apologize for any errors, but after
the first few pages I stopped proof-reading the OCR efforts of the
computer.  I have reasonable confidence that the prices are correct
since they were manually entered.

I only attended the Saturday portion of the auction.  As I read through
the list I remembered two things that I meant to bid on, but forgot to
stay around for them.  If anyone out there bought these items, I would
like to buy some of them from the box lots.  One was a set of
reproduction pedals for a melodeon which there were several boxes of
near the end of the listing.  The second would have been in the box
lots on Monday.  One of the boxes contained the wooden "hammers" to a
Schoenhut toy piano.  I'm missing 2 on one of my units.  If you don't
recognize them in the cigar boxes, they look like small wooden eggs
with one end cut off that attach to a leather-like strap.  A few of
the Monday cigar boxes had these in them.

Also, did anyone happen to find the bow motor governor for the Violano
in any of their stuff?  It's missing on the single Violano I bought.

Enjoy the lists everyone.  I hope they are of use and I'm happy that
I was able to make a contribution to the group.

Jack Breen
Southboro, MA

 [ Jack,
 [    Thanks a bunch for all this work!
 [
 [ I have placed an HTML version of the file(s) Jack sent onto
 [ the MMD Website as:
 [
 [     http://mmd.foxtail.com/Events/Deansboro_Auction/
 [
 [ I am going to try to clean up the HTML over the next week or so,
 [ and will probably also put the other files he placed there.
 [ Come back and visit the Deansboro Auction page again if you
 [ are interested in this topic.     -- Jody